André Leroi-Gourhan

André Leroi - Gourhan ( August 25, 1911 in Paris, † February 19, 1986 ibid ) was a French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist. Important contributions he made to the art styles of the Upper Paleolithic, the one he ran in four epochs (→ Main article artistic styles of cave painting).

Life

Leroi - Gourhan studied at the School of Oriental Languages ​​( Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales ) at the Sorbonne in Paris with a degree in Russian ( 1931) and Chinese ( 1933). He has been involved since 1933 in the construction of the Musée de l' Homme, studied at the British Museum in 1937 and took part in an expedition to Japan, where he gathered material for his dissertation, which took place in 1945 with Marcel Mauss at the Sorbonne ( about archeology in the North Pacific ). 1940 to 1944 he was at the Musée Guimet and conducted research for the CNRS. During World War II he was in the Resistance and was awarded the Medal of the Resistance, the Croix de Guerre and was a member of the Legion of Honour. In 1946 he became deputy director of the Musée de l' Homme and then professor in Lyon. In 1956 he became professor at the Sorbonne, where in 1963 director of the Institute of Ethnology and 1969 to 1982 he was a professor at the College de France.

He dealt with both general issues of technology and the development of material culture in anthropology, with excavation technology and especially prehistoric art and religion.

In 1973 he received the Gold Medal of the CNRS. He was a member of the Institut de France.

Excavations

  • Grotte de l' Arcy- sur-Cure in the Yonne department in Burgundy, where he dug up from 1946 to 1963.
  • Pincevent in the Paris basin, where he dug up a stock of reindeer hunters of the Magdalenian from 1964.

Bibliography (selection)

  • L' Homme et la matière (Paris: Albin Michel, 1943).
  • Milieu et techniques (Paris: Albin Michel, 1945).
  • Le geste et la parole (Paris: Albin Michel, 1964-65 ).
  • Les religions de la Préhistoire (Paris: PUF, 1964).
  • Préhistoire de l'art occidental (Paris: Mazenod, 1965).

In English:

  • Prehistoric Man ( New York: Philosophical Library, 1957).
  • The Dawn of European Art: An Introduction to Palaeolithic Cave Painting ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).

In German language:

  • Prehistoric Art. Herder Publisher: Freiburg; Basel and Vienna, Ars Antiqua - Great epochs of world art in 1971.
  • Hand and word. The evolution of technology, language and art. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1980.
  • The religions of history. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1981.
  • ( with Arlette Leroi - Gourhan ) A trip to the Ainu. Zurich: Ammann, 1989.
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